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Replying to @Meaningness
I think Putnam is like the old Chinese civil service exams. Situated such that the best will often excel, even tho useless.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Or, maybe, like IQ tests, which also depend on dumb puzzles, but do correlate highly with later achievement
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Replying to @Meaningness
IQ is more like weightlifting, Putnam more like synchronized swimming
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Replying to @St_Rev
Inasmuch as weightlifting deterministically develops a single genetic factor (slow-twitch muscle fibers) and sync swim is fiddly technique?
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Replying to @Meaningness
Weightlifting closer to objective engagement w world, s.s. more like ritual
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Replying to @St_Rev
Ah, yes… weightlifting is pretty bubble-world too, if you get serious about it, ime
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Replying to @Meaningness
It doesn't involve persuading an authority figure
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Replying to @St_Rev @Meaningness
Does Putnam involve persuading an auth figure? The criteria for success (correct proof) are not a whim of a judge.
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Replying to @brewingsense @Meaningness
Authority figure defines the task and rubric in painstaking detail. Weightlifting could be trivially automated
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Fun story: one year someone got a perfect score on Putnam. Organizers were displeased.
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